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This month, we are highlighting Chicago’s position atop the rankings of most resilience cities, ComEd moves to reduce data center queue speculation, a new crop of enhanced geothermal projects, good and bad things happening in Federal policy, and much more!
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Air Energy builds air batteries powered by oxygen from the surrounding air, storing more than five times the energy per kilogram of today's best lithium-ion cells.
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Members of the Evergreen Climate Innovations team recently spent a week participating in conversations at Aspen Ideas Climate in Chicago and at surrounding events. Across main-stage panels, breakout sessions, and hallway chats, several clear themes emerged regarding where the climate and energy ecosystem is headed.
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This month, we are leading off with PJM’s new acronym heavy activity (despite our desire to talk about other things), action in the Colorado river crisis and massive grid scale battery growth. Plus, updates on the carbon removal market, electric autonomous vehicles, data center opposition, and much more!
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Carba, one of our most recent investments, turns wood waste into stable biocarbon and buries it for over 1,000 years, delivering low-cost, durable, measurable, and scalable carbon removal.
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Read the latest update from Investment Team member, Shashank Churukanti, on CleanTech VC trends from the end of 2026 H1.
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The throughline of the month is experiments with new market rules - across grid operators, multinational, emissions trading systems, and state regulators. This month, we’re talking about the multiheaded hydra that is PJM’s grid operations challenges, new pathways for carbon removal adoption, the various different colors and flavors of state level data center bans popping up, plus Elon’s new pet project and more!
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Evergreen's annual flagship event, Co_Invest Climate, brings founders, investors, corporate leaders, and ecosystem builders to Chicago to gather, build community, and share learnings that extend beyond just the one day convening. Read the post for a full recap!
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This month, we’re discussing space based data centers, new funding for Frontier Climate, a first of its kind deal for a virtual power plant, and major swings in public opinion around data centers. Also, a couple other items that aren’t directly tied to the AI-data center build out.
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This month we’re highlighting Fervo’s recent IPO, recent news from thermal storage company Anotora, how the war with Iran is accelerating the global energy transition, Elemental’s new data center innovation initiative, how the world is changing around autonomous vehicles, and more!
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This month, we are highlighting a new giant wind project (and how portfolio company Grid Status is connected to it), the emerging trend of off-grid gas power for data center development, interesting new global electricity data, and a major change in the market for voluntary carbon removal purchases.
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This month, we’re exploring the very strange deal the Trump Administration struck with TotalEnergies, highlighting recent coverage of Evergreen portfolio company Cache Energy, looking into some of the downstream challenges being wrought by the war in Iran, a key approval for a new type of nuclear plant, and much much more!
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